“Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes a blessing that great historical figures don’t live to see what people do to their visions.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose. — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Big guys and historical figures are often linked because people back in the day were not obsessed with their figure. — Angus Macfadyen Copy Share Image
I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried. — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions.” — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.'… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been… — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the… — Benedict Wong Copy Share Image
The United States is a country founded on the ideal of freedom and equality, values later underlined by key historical figures like… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
Statues and murals depicting historical figures, and even Jesus Christ himself, are being targeted by angry mobs of individuals looking to rewrite… — Jeff Van Drew Copy Share Image
I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
For 'The Grace of Kings,' I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places,… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
I loved the fact that Peabody was a teacher and that he would take Sherman on these incredible adventures to meet these… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
“Creativity is closely associated with bipolar disorder. This condition is unique . Many famous historical figures and artists have had this. Yet… — Preeti Shenoy Copy Share Image
“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
“I create not only robots that represent your departed loves ones by incorporating their DNA into robotic form. Morgue verified. I also… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
I love quotes, I love learning from people of the past, sports figures, historical figures, whoever. — Jesse Marsch Copy Share Image
We have this real problem as human beings to put people on pedestals - with celebrities, with historical figures - and we… — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
I think - since I was about 7 years old - that was when I was first introduced to the comics called… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
The person I respect most, in terms of historical figures, is probably Nelson Mandela. I just think that his tolerance in the… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
“The historical figures who earned the honorific “So-and-So the Great” were not great artists, scholars, doctors, or inventors, people who enhanced human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
“I’d been called a genius and a game-changer, a harbinger of the future and a once-in-a-generation mind. I’d walked in the halls… — CD Reiss Copy Share Image
When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
